Adrian Mayor Greg DuMars said he and two other city officials will meet Wednesday in Lansing with state officials to talk about the future of the former Adrian Training School property.

The city, which owns the property, has been approached about selling all 55 acres to a private group that wants to build a toy tractor museum, DuMars said.

Officials in the Real Estate Division of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget told the city earlier this year that the 2010 legislation allowing the state to convey the property to the city for less than market value requires that the property be used only for a public purpose.

The museum is a private group.

The state closed the former training school in January 2009 and sold the property to Adrian for $1 in 2011.

Earlier this year, the state would not allow the city to sell eight acres of the land to a private developer who wanted to invest about $5 million in the property. The city did not disclose the nature of that proposed development.

State officials said new legislation would be needed to allow the property to be sold for a private use.

DuMars said he, city administrator Dane Nelson and Adrian economic development coordinator Chris Miller will meet with Robert Burns, director of the Real Estate Division of the Department of Technology, Management & Budget, as well as with Chris Harkins, legislative liaison for the department, and with Sen. Bruce Caswell, R-Pittsford.

The goal will be to see if there is a way to convey the property to the museum group, DuMars said.

The Blissfield Village Council approved a resolution Aug. 26 supporting the concept of locating a tractor museum on the former Home Canning Co. property in Blissfield. The minutes of the meeting say the village was approached about the museum by a group called the Tri-County Historical Society.

DuMars and Blissfield Village Administrator James Wonacott confirmed that that is the same group that has inquired about the former training school grounds.

Wonacott said his understanding is that the collection is primarily toy tractors, but that some real tractors also are in the collection.